G4S boss: we will be frozen out

The new chairman breaks his silence to concede that the Olympics fiasco could cost the security giant deals in future

THE chairman of G4S has broken his silence over the Olympic Games security
fiasco to admit he fears the loss of future public contracts — and refuse to
give unqualified support to Nick Buckles, his embattled chief executive.

John Connolly said the FTSE 100 outsourcing giant expected to miss out on
contracts to run prisons and back-office police work. He also said Buckles’s
position could come up for review.

Connolly said: “If a contract was being given out by a government department
or other large business at the moment, you can understand they would find it
difficult to hand that contract to us.”

On Buckles, he said: “It is inevitable that a part of it [a review into the
Olympics contract] will be a discussion about the senior management. Was
there enough of a focus on this contract?”